Living Hope Fellowship Church

PRAYING THROUGH

(Volume2)

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

PRAYING THROUGH

(Volume2)

Preface

(prayer)

          Many people don’t want to serve God, because of what they might have to give up!  They know it isn’t right, but it feels so good!  Sin will destroy you in due time, and you can be sure your sins will find you out!

          Job 33:19-29 tells us how God will often work with people to get them to pray through.  It also speaks of someone who will intercede for those who need to pray through.      

          1 Peter 1:3 speaks of the abundant mercy of God and how He, “. . . hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 

          God forgives, so let’s pray through and believe God.

PRAYING THROUGH

(Volume2)

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

          God IS and God CAN!  Matthew 18:19 says, “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.”  Praise the Lord!

          Luke 5:12-13 says, “And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.  And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.”  At that time a leper was something that you weren’t supposed to be around, let alone touch.  However, Jesus put forth his hand, touched him, and talked to him, and immediately he was healed of the leprosy!

          This heart rending incident took place during the ministry of Christ.  Three times out of the four Gospels we hear about this man who was full of leprosy.  It was probably all that he could do to get to Jesus.  He didn’t come to Him with unbelief or melancholy.  He came with faith and a humble reverence of the Lord.  He was not demanding of the Lord, nor was he manipulating the Lord, but he declared what the Lord could do.  He knew that if the Lord wanted to, He could make him clean.

          That man hadn’t had anyone touch him in years.  Jesus didn’t run a danger of getting leprosy, but the devil ran the danger of being cast into the pit, and he was!  The leper was immediately cleansed of leprosy when Jesus touched him.

          A lot of people know God can do anything, but they say, “Lord, do you want to?”  The Lord’s answer is almost indignant sometimes, because He sent His Son to touch us and deliver us so we won’t have to be in bondage.  However, many people don’t want to serve God because of what they might have to give up!  They know it isn’t right, but it feels so good!  If you serve the devil, he will destroy you in due time.  Be sure your sins will find you out!  Not just in outward appearance, but inward working also. 

          This man was filled with leprosy and troubled on every side.  Now, how can you approach God like that?  This man was hopeless, and right next to helpless.  He was headed for the grave.  A leper in those days would cry out, “UNCLEAN!”  They were forbidden to get close to anybody lest they be stoned.  They let them live outside of the city.  They shoved food out on a pole so their defilement wouldn’t get on them!

            This man knew that Jesus could make him clean and healed every whit, but he didn’t know if Jesus wanted to.  Jesus had compassion for people!  He had compassion on people who were nasty, lewd and vile or troubled, and on those who were filled with iniquity.  He had compassion on them!  He will have compassion on every one of us, if we will believe God. 

          We all start out at the same level, lost and undone, and without hope in this world, but we all can have the same Savior!  Also, we can all go to a higher place and a deeper walk in God!  Heaven will be our home in due season if we come to the Savior, Jesus Christ! 

          Why does Jesus save us?  Because He wants to!  The devil says, Why do you want to bother with this trash?  I have already had it this long.  Don’t you know what he has done?  Do you know what she has done?  Do you know what they have been through?  Do you know what they have caused?  Do you know what they have tried to destroy?  God already knows, yet He forgives! 

          The man full of leprosy had no hope whatsoever.  The Pharisees couldn’t help him.  The Sadducees couldn’t help him.  The latest elections couldn’t help him.  The sacrifice of bulls couldn’t help him.  Nothing and nobody could help him, but he heard about Jesus.  There is someone who can help YOU out of all of your troubles no matter where you are, where you have been, or where you think you are headed.       

          Jesus can set you free!  He can give you a present and a future that your past won’t have any more affect on!  Jesus can give you a brand new life if you come to Him.  People complain about why their life is in such a shape, yet they won’t come to the only source of redemption and deliverance.

          The devil will bind people and keep them from praying through if he possibly can.  Praying through is different than just praying.  Praying through is praying until you are done; praying until you get the victory; getting everything under the blood; you know again on whom you believe.  It takes more time than just praying.  Praying through is not a convenience. 

          You must pray through to victory or victory has no avenue to come through.  Chronic trouble, illnesses, habits, and torments will not exist in the life of someone who prays through!  An amazing thing about it is that when we pray through we have power placed in our life to impart it to others!  They can be fully delivered, and they themselves can get in the place of praying through and then passing it on!  It ought to spread like wildfire!

          In Matthew 12:33 Jesus said, “Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.”  He did not say that you would know a tree by its gifts. 

          There was one tree that had some gifts but no hope.  The time of figs was not yet.  It had leaves only, and He cursed that tree.  You might say that wasn’t fair, but there weren’t even any green ones on it.  It wasn’t going to bear any figs.  It was just bearing leaves only.  People have an outward appearance of religion only.  It doesn’t produce fruit.  Jesus cursed the fig tree from the roots up.  Generally, the tree dies from the tips down, so that was a miracle. 

          If the church will pray through and get to the victory that so rightfully belongs to them, revival will burst forth.  Then people will come in.  Jesus said in John 12:32, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”  The draw doesn’t come until Jesus is lifted up, and Jesus cannot be lifted up until men are put down. 

          John’s Gospel put it just as plain as day.  It was one of the shortest sermons, and most concise on sanctification, that we will probably ever find.  He said in John 3:30, “He must increase, but I must decrease.”  This is what God would have us to do. 

          We all need to pray through on some things. 

1 Peter 4:17 says, “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”  Judgment begins at the house of God, so praying through must begin at the house of God!

          Psalm 142:1 says, “I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.”  David cried unto the LORD with his voice!  Some people pray “inside”.  When you pray out loud, you hear what it sounds like.  David got desperate and was praying through out loud.  I don’t recommend your own personal praying through to be done around other people, because it is none of their business. 

          Matthew 6:6 says, “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

          Have you ever prayed out loud by yourself and listened to it?  It is scary.  The Lord gave me this to give to someone not too long ago.  I called and told them to pray out loud and to tell the Lord what they think about Him.  I could hear a pause on the other line.  I told them that I knew that they were mad and disappointed at Him and that they did not fully believe.  However, you have to talk about it.  There are times that you have to speak it out!  Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth is going to speak.

          There is a time to be silent and pray in your soul, but there is a time where you are going to have to spit it out!  David began to confess his sin out loud.  God sees all and looks right into your soul, but you can get into the place where you can stand before God and say, “Lord, I’m not worthy to stand here, but by the blood of Jesus I’m here, so look me over.”  Wow! 

          Psalm 139:23-24 says, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”           

          Psalm 142:2 says, “I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.”  He was complaining out loud to God!  Here is scriptural proof that you can complain out loud to God.  It is in the Bible, but be reverent, and don’t shake your fist at God. 

          Jeremiah almost called God a liar, but he didn’t.  He said in Jeremiah 15:18, “. . .wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?”  In other words, are you going to do what you told me you were going to do?  He poured out his complaint out loud.  He began to talk to the Lord and tell him what he thought, like David did.

          Now, look at this awesome thing in Verse 3:  “When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. . . .”  Folks, it’s in the hard and stressful times that you find out who you really are.  When people get down they start looking up with faith in God, like the leper who came to Jesus.  Totally unworthy, totally unclean, totally without hope, yet they believe that God can deliver, if He will.  Praying through will set you free from your habits, and the consequences thereof. 

          It says at the end of Psalm 142:3, “. . . In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.”  “They” are devils or people who might work with him.  Verse 4 says, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.”  In other words, there were people who wouldn’t claim to know him!

          If a Christian can’t pray, it is because of condemnation.  Condemnation comes from not believing God.  Where does not believing God come from?  Not praying through.  If you pray through, then you have confidence.  It is not self confidence or mental confidence.  When you pray through the faith of Jesus comes.  It is placed in there by God.  

          Psalm 142:5-6 says, “I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.  Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.”  Few people admit that! 

          Please, understand something.  The littlest devil can whip you up one side and down the other.  A microscopic virus that can’t be killed by humans is a demon, and it can put you in your bed or in your grave unless God intervenes!  What can the bigger ones do?  Angels are greater in power and might than man, and all types of devils are stronger than man, but when you get covered and cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ things change!  1 John 4:4 says, “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”  That works if you pray through and stay prayed through! 

          In Matthew is the story about the man who came to the wedding without a wedding garment.  The king checked him out.  Matthew 22:11-12 says, “And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.”  He knew who he was, but he didn’t know him as family.  Verse 13 says, “Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 

          You can make spiritual “advances”.  You can have huge ministries, but you have to get saved.  You have to be born again to get to heaven.  There are world famous ministries right now performing acts, but some of them aren’t prayed through. 

          Psalm 142:7 says, “Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. . . .”  When you can’t praise the Lord, there is something wrong.  When you have to kick the congregation to say amen or hallelujah there is something wrong.  The end of Verse 7 says, “. . . the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.”    

          Do you see him praying through?  The people didn’t want to get around him till he prayed through.  The meanest and the hardest person to be around is a Christian who hasn’t prayed through!  They are filled with excuses as to why they can’t do what they need to do, or why God isn’t working with them.

          Judas and Peter had at one time or another been devil possessed by Satan himself.  John 13:27 says, “And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.”  Jesus was talking to the devil that was in Judas.         

          One day Simon Peter came up to Jesus when Jesus was talking about the death that he would accomplish at Jerusalem, and Peter rebuked him.  Matthew 16:22 says, “Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.”  Jesus said to Peter in Verse 23:  “. . . Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”  Because he was unstable, the devil entered right in, but Jesus cast the devil out of him right there when he told him that. 

          A lot of people don’t understand that Peter was so unstable.  He would do glorious things, and then he would backslide.  He didn’t even have a clue which way he was going when he was doing either one of them! 

          In Matthew 14:28 Peter said, “. . . Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.”  Verse 29 says, “And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.”  However, when he saw the waves he began to sink.  Then we find him rebuking the Lord, telling him that He didn’t have to go through all of that sanctification!  The cross brings sanctification.  It’s a trial and a setting apart. 

          Psalm 51:1-3 says, “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.  For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.”

          His sin was ever before him - when he went to the bathroom, when he went to bed, when he went to work, when he met his friends, when he talked to his family, when he talked to God!  When you pray, your sin will be standing there looking at you, until you repent and pray through!  Who you are testifies either for you or against you. 

          Psalm 51:4 says, “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: [Now, this second part is an insert by God.] that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.”  God says that if you confess your sin He will forgive you (see 1 John 1:9).

          Have you ever said things out loud where only your ears can hear you confess the sin that does so easily beset you?  Have you ever “said” the thing that you are wrestling with out loud?  Have you ever said, I rebuke this lust devil.  God, forgive me for my covetousness.  God, set me free from my worldliness.  God, set me free from my hardness. God, take away my bitterness. 

          When you get specific, it shocks you, but it can free you.  You can then be justified.  Verse 4 says, “. . . that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.”  When the Lord starts dealing with you about something, why do you keep doing it?  You must not think that it is wrong, or do you think that you will get by with it?

          Psalms 51:5 says, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.”  Maybe you are a bastard.  The Old Testament says a bastard won’t enter the congregation of the Lord.  He can’t even approach the altar, but thank God for the New Testament, because it is not by might, nor by power, nor by flesh and blood, that we enter the kingdom of God, but by God’s Spirit.  Revelation 22:17 says, “. . . let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” 

          There is a goodness and power in being able to pray through!  He will humiliate you, but in your humiliation your judgment is taken away.

           Psalm 51:6 says, “Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.”  David, in this verse, is talking to the Lord, but he is also preaching from the Lord to us today.  He says that it takes truth in the inward parts to pray through!

            Tell God how you feel.  Tell Him the truth of where you really are!  Don’t play games and try to put on a front with God!  Don’t come to Him to keep Him from getting mad at you with some sort of outward appearance.  What makes Him angry with you is when you put that on!

          God desires truth in our inward parts.  You can know in your head, but you won’t have confidence in your heart until you have prayed through.  Presumption is not confidence, nor is it faith.  Psalms 19:13 says, “Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.” 

          God wants truth out of you.  He won’t lie to you, and He doesn’t want you lying to Him.  You can’t hide anything from God anyway!  God knows your heart, but He wants you to know your heart!  When you start talking to Him straight, tell Him exactly why you won’t serve Him and why you don’t love Him.  Tell Him why you won’t get sanctified or do what He tells you to do.  Go on down the list between you and God alone.  Then pray through.

          There is no praying through up in heaven.  When the trumpet sounds, if you have sin, you don’t fly!  They don’t drop off of you like ripe cherries from a tree!  Your sins don’t fall off as you are going up!  They come off first, or you will be too heavy to fly. 

          Psalms 51: 7 says, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”  A new driven snow comes down so fresh and clean!  David says to wash him whiter than that.  He isn’t talking about race, but the condition of the soul.  Your skin is only a pigment deep.  It is just a few thousandths of an inch deep.  After that everybody is the same color inside.  It is the condition and the color of your soul that God is looking at! 

          If the church will pray through, the sinner will!  Judgment begins in the house of God!  Then the sinner and the ungodly can come.  Where will they stand otherwise? 

          Psalm 51:8-10 says, “Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.  Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” 

          Do you know what it is like to have a clean heart?  Do you know what it is like to have a blessed soul, knowing that your heart is right with God?  You don’t have to worry about dying!  Let them shoot you or run over you!  My life is not caught up in this world!  It’s caught up to be with Jesus!  Everything else is secondary.

          Getting a clean heart may not be fun, but after you get it, it will be a blast!  Only God can create a clean heart.  David asked God to renew a right spirit in him.  Sometimes our spirit gets crooked!  Verse 11 says, “Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.”  David was a child of God who backslid.  He was afraid that the Spirit was not there and asked God not to remove it.  He didn’t want God to quit dealing with him.

          I told the Lord, “God, no matter what I say, no matter what I do, put me in the place where you want me to be.  Now, I’m not going to agree with you, and I’m going to fight you every step of the way, but, God, don’t pay any attention to what I say.  Just do it!”  He says, “I want you to go here.”  I say, “I don’t want to.”  Imagine Him saying, “Alright, I’ll break both of your legs; you will go.”  They will carry you, but you will go.  You don’t think that God would do that?  Deuteronomy 32:39 says, “. . . I kill, and I make alive . . . I wound, and I heal. . . .”  And, we don’t fear God? 

          Psalms 51:9-12 says, “Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.”

          Verse 13 says, “Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.”  Look how long it was before he said, in other words, that he would be a witness.  We have to have joy if we want people to want what we have!  Proverbs 17:22 says, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. . . .”

          I asked God, “Why is it that I’m not casting out some of these devils that need to be cast out, and why is it that the church does not cast out all devils?”  He said that it was because some people have more of the devil than we do of God.”  I said, “But, greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.”  He said, “Yes, but you have not yielded to me like they have yielded to the world.” 

          Matthew 7:2 says, “. . . with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”  The more you live for God, the more you will get blessed.  The more you submit, the more is given.  Matthew 7:7 says, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:” 

          Sometimes you have to kick the door down.  God says that there is a door between you and the blessing or the ministry that you want.  I told the Lord to kick the door down, but He said that He gave me power to kick it down!  The Father said, “It is finished,” on the 6^th day of creation.  Jesus said, “It is finished,” as He died on the cross of Calvary.  The Holy Ghost is still moving, but it is up to you and me to declare war on the devil and pray through.

          It took thirteen verses to get to where he could teach transgressors God’s ways; He had to pray through first.  He said that is what it is going to take.  Verse 14 says, “Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.” 

          After you pray through, you won’t be scared to say, “Praise the Lord,” or “Hallelujah!” in public!  Verse 15-16 says, “O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.  For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.” 

          You say, What can I do, Lord?  What can I do to move you or influence you?  What can I do to move you to where I can get an answer?  What is it that I can say?  What is it that I can do?  What is it that I can sacrifice?  God answers that in Verse 17:  “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”  There is nothing else.           

          He is a God of sacrifice.  He sacrificed His own Son for our sins.  In this scripture we see that the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a broken, contrite heart.  This heart He will not ignore or neglect.  If need be, tell Him humbly, “Lord, I’m disappointed with you; I’m angry with you, and I’m also disappointed in me.  I hate everybody.  I’m gut sick of this world.”  You can just be in a sewer, but tell Him!  Tell Him!  If you harbor it, it is still there!  Get it out.  Repent, or you are not prayed through.  You will know when it is out. 

          You have to know on whom you believe if you want to pray with faith in your heart, because without faith you can’t even please Him, let alone get prayer answered.  I marvel at the miracle of God’s grace because of what we get, because of the lack of being prayed through.  Thank God for His mercy!

          I heard a message from the Lord that said: “Do not mistake my tolerance for my approval.”  Do you understand that?  In other words, “Do not mistake my tolerance of you and your ways for my approval of your ways.”  In other words, “I might tolerate it for a while, but I have never approved of it.”  At one time God winked at sin, but now He commands every one to repent.  He gave us power to where we don’t have to sin anymore.  Sin shall not have dominion over you if you pray through. 

          Please understand that indifference is a product of the devil.  He can do anything that he wants to with indifference.  Jesus said in Revelations 3:15-16, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” 

          If you love God you have a good relationship.  If you are fighting God, you have a relationship.  It isn’t a good one, but at least you are talking.  However, if you are indifferent you don’t care.  You say, “Just hurry up, preacher, because my show comes on at 9:00.” 

          Job 33:19 says, “He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain.”  Chastened means reproved.  God spanks a little harder than mom and dad.   Mom and dad can redden your rump, but God could cancer your liver, or He could just hand you over to the devil.  The devil wants you to party hearty, but if you do, you will pay for it the rest of your life.  Without repentance, you will pay for eternity!           

          Job 33:19 says God chastens men with pain.  Verse 20 says, “So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.”  In other words, he doesn’t care about eating.  Verse 21 says, “His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.”  In other words, a man loses weight badly to where his bones stick out.  Verse 22 says, “Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.”  This describes a man’s condition. 

          It is our responsibility to pray through and help them.  Verse 23 says, “If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:”  A messenger who is prayed through comes to pray for him.  An interpreter is a person who can tell him why.  Verse 24:  “Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.”  In other words, God is gracious to him that was afflicted.  He used someone to pray with him and so delivered him from going down to the pit.    

          Some say that the Lord was our ransom, so we can just walk the way we want to, but 2 Corinthians 5:10 says, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”

          Matthew 16:19 says, “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” When we pray through He gives us power to help someone else.

          Somebody on earth needs to pray and agree with God.  Jesus paid the price for redemption, but He is looking for somebody down here to pick up and to keep the ministry going.  We are His disciples now, the “disciplined” ones. 

          Job 33:24 said he found a “ransom”.  This is somebody who has prayed through and can get a hold of God so that God will spare a life.  God will hit, but if somebody prays, the very same God will have mercy upon them, because of the praying person.  Moses did this back before the Holy Ghost was given.  He laid down before God and begged God not to kill the people!  God had the sword out to kill them, but Moses fell on his face and interceded for them.  I can imagine the Lord just sighing.  He did kill some of them.  People don’t think that God has emotions!  We were created in God’s image, and that includes emotions.

          Job 33:25-26 says, “His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:  He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.”

          Look what James 5:15 says:  “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”

          We must see the error of our ways and get prayed through!  Job 33:27-28 says, “He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.”  Verse 29 says, “Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,” so this is not a rare case!  He does it often!

          Some will say, “Well, God will never forgive me.” God can forgive, cleanse, heal, and deliver anybody, but we have got to ask.  As far as the backslider, look at Peter, who, in 1 Peter 1:3, says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”           If you are saved once, and you backslide, and then you get saved again, God has begotten you again.

          God can bring back your ministry, and he can bring back your life from the grave.  God can do a work in your life and set you free.  Are any worthy?  No, but God has given us the ability to repent and pray through by the redeeming power of Jesus Christ.  Now is the time to do it.  Let’s believe God.

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PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY

LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O. BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL  62941

CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541

E-mail  livinghope@hughes.net

www.livinghopefellowshipchurch.org

These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.